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| Botanical Name: | Juncus holoschoenus |
| Common Name: | Joint-leaf Rush |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Rush / Sedge, Grass Like / Strappy, Bird Attracting |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moist, Wet, Boggy, Poorly Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 50 cm x 40 cm |
| Foliage: | Leaves along stems, hollow, hardly partitioned, shorter or longer than flowering stems, 1-4 mm wide. Rounded ear-like lobes at tip of leaf sheath margins. |
| Flowers: | Pale green reddish-tinged clusters, November-March. Branched flowerhead with 2-75 scattered or close clusters of 4-40 flowers; 6 stamens. Main bract shorter or longer than flowerhead. Capsules golden brown, angled, as long or longer than flowers. |
| General Comments: | Open, tufted perennial rush. Erect leafy stems to 3mm diam., new shoots sometimes rising from lower nodes. An attractive rush for wet areas beside water features or along wet edges. Birds like the seeds. Frog Habitat. |
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